Dialogue 3: Hope

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this third dialogue session Jim and Kirsten focus on the theme of Hope within the thoughts and teachings of Gabriel Marcel. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: [email protected] Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until May 13th, 2025. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more, visit
0:05.5	CAC.org. Greetings. I'm Jim Finley. And I'm Kirsten Oates. Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:29.2	Welcome, everyone, to season 11 of turning to the mystics, where we're turning to the philosopher Gabriel Marcel.
0:31.0	And I'm here with Jim to dialogue about his third session on hope.
0:36.7	Welcome, Jim.
0:40.3	Yes, good. I'm looking forward to our dialogue. Jim, your session on hope was so beautiful and I'm looking forward to dialogueing about hope. But
0:47.1	I find it helpful to re-ground us in Marcel's vision before we move into the path aspect of hope. So if you don't mind,
0:56.8	I'll take a pass at explaining Marcel's vision and then you'll add to it. So Marcel's helping
1:04.2	us understand that we can experience reality in two different ways. We can experience it as the realm of the problematic,
1:12.1	where we recognize problems to be solved, we analyze things, we're trying to understand things,
1:19.4	and then we can experience reality in the realm of mystery. And this mystery opens up onto things like love, like faith, and ultimately what
1:34.3	myself calls being.
1:36.0	And we might experience a sense of this oneness with being and through that relationship,
1:42.0	our oneness with all beings.
1:44.8	So Jim, what have I got right there?
1:47.8	He's inviting us to reflect on the interior dimensions of our own experience,
1:55.5	of our life and of our self-reality.
1:58.7	And so the problematic is everything that is dualistically other than our self, where we seek an
2:06.3	answer or a solution.
2:08.2	So the examples that we use, if my car won't start, or if the roof is leaking, these are
2:14.8	problems.
2:15.7	And whenever there's a problem, we look for a method to solve the
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